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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 170–224
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei; calculation for the year AD 912; hymns; additions; Boethius, De consolatione Philosophiae (excerpts).
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 170r: additions by an English hand of the 10th century (Anglo-Saxon minuscule) of excerpts of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (two first verses [metra], imperfect). Beginning: 'Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi/ Flebilis heu moestos cogor inire modos'. Ending: 'Dec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century-c 912
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 2–67
Title:: Pontifical, with medieval endleaves.
Scope & Content:: Contents: A collection of pontifical services and prayers originally written for the See of Canterbury. Here, the prayers have been adapted for the use of Exeter Cathedral. f. 2v: Confirmation, prayers beginning: 'In confirmatione. Episcopus levata manu super capita confirmandorum dicat'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 68–83
Title:: A penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, homilia xx).
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 68r: Title in Old English: 'Þis siondon ondetnessa to gode seolfum'. ff. 68r-69v: A prayer: 'Ego peccavi quando non dulgebam in me peccantibus'. ff. 69v-79r: a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum. Rubric: 'De confessio peccatorum et penitentie Isidori'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 84–101
Title:: Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 84r-101v: Canones Cottoniani, a version of the Iudicia Theodori. Rubric: 'Incipit iudicium de penitentia Theodori episcopi'. Beginning: 'In ordinatione presbiteri'. Decoration: Foliated initial in black (f. 84r). Rubrics in red. This is possibly part of the same medieval manusc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 102–125
Title:: Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 102r-120v: excerpts from Amalarius, Liber officialis (Retractatio prima). Rubric: 'De signis quibus congregamur ad ecclesiam'. Beginning: 'Signorum usus a veteri testamento sumptus est'. ff. 120v-121r: exegesis and rhyming version of the Pater Noster beginning: 'Pater noster qui ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century-End of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XV, ff 122-125
Title:: Medieval endleaves.
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 122r: fragment of Amalarius, Liber de officialis, book III. f. 122v: fragment of a prayer. f. 123v: a note at the head top of the folio. f. 124r: pen trial of the 14th century. An earlier inscription has been erased in the right margin. f. 125v: 11th and 12th century notes. Se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-End of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XV.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XX, f 1
Title:: Ovid, Metamorphoses.
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii.491–580. Decoration: Simple letters in black ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XX.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XX, ff 2–93
Title:: Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-86r: Penitential manual including the first part of the Penitentiale Sangermanense or Cantabrigiense. Liturgical part of the penitential is on ff. 2r-3v; the ordo part is on ff. 4r-86r. ff. 87r-92v: Confessional prayer in Old English. It contains a long list of sins aimed to t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XX.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XX, ff 94–95
Title:: Ovid, Metamorphoses.
Scope & Content:: Contents: From the same manuscript as f. 1r-v. ff. 94r-95v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, viii.101–288. Decoration: Simple letters in black ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XX.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 1–17
Title:: Historia Brittonum (Harleian recension)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the 'Harleian recension' of Historia Brittonum, copied at Rochester in first half of the 12th century. The remainder of this text is now Royal 15 A XXII. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

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